Thanks, I will give it a try. NetBSD is challenging but their documentation is better than OpenBSD.

If you are usinghttp://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/index.html
I do no believe that it has had much in the way of updating since version 4.01
In point there is no documentation about setting up wireless wpa encryption. I also have tried NetBSD and have run into similiar road blocks.

The OpenBSD FAQ, although, more succint, is rewritten for each release. I have had a much higher success rate with OpenBSD. In your case for Gnome, most of what you need to know is in the gnome-session README.OpenBSD. After installing gnome-session the readme is in
/usr/local/share/doc/gnome-session/README.OpenBSD